Marianna Uutinen
Marianna Uutinen’s approach to painting draws its vitality from the gesture of her brushstrokes and the hybrid mix of materials. Using her signature technique, Uutinen fuses together thick layers of acrylic paint, building up a skin-like structure, which is then draped across the surface of a traditional canvas. Each overlaying gesture negates, blends and reveals the accumulation of her actions. The act of painting and the paint itself become entangled in their own reflexivity with ecstatic and hauntingly visceral results.
Marianna Uutinen (b. 1961, Finland) lives and works in Berlin. Uutinen has exhibited at numerous institutions throughout Europe including Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen; the Moderna Museet, Malmö; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Ludwig Museum, Koblenz; Malmö Konsthall; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. In 1997 Uutinen represented Finland at the Venice Biennale.
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Publications
Marianna Uutinen, Ytimestä / Coring, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 2007
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Bathroom Stories, 2018, Acrylic paint and glitter on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
Cocky, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Black Sun, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Torso, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Crazy, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
Untitled, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 cm
Untitled, 2016, from the series Free, acrylic on canvas, 215 x 175 cm
Untitled (Flieder), 2016, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm
Untitled, 2016, from the series Free, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 300 cm
Marianna Uutinen, Biennale Arte Dolomiti, 2018.
Marianna Uutinen, Wait Light, Kunst-Station und Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, 2017/2018.
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Marianna Uutinen, Wait Light, Kunst-Station und Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, 2017/2018.
©Janina Snatzke
Night on Earth II, 2015, acrylic paint skins collaged on canvas, 230 x 255 cm
Retrodate, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 225 x 250 cm
Sex Diaries, 2014, acrylic paint skins collaged on canvas, 180 x 220 cm
String, 2013, acrylic paint skins collaged on canvas, 180 x 130 cm
M Butterfly, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 240 x 200 cm
Marianna Uutinen, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, 2013. Photo: Roman März
Inside of the Out, 1994, from the series Feelings, acrylic paint skins collaged on canvas, 204 x 170 cm
Naturally Artificial, The Venice Biennale, The Nordic Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 1997
